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The Spirent CV-8GFC-S4 is a cutting-edge HyperMetrics Fibre Channel Test Module designed to meet the evolving needs of data center network equipment vendors, system integrators, enterprises, and data center cloud operators. It serves as a comprehensive solution for testing and evaluating the performance of converged networks, both during the pre-development and post-development phases. The CV-8GFC-S4 empowers users to simulate and assess the entire data center environment, providing in-depth insights into the Quality of Service (QoS) performance for applications, storage, and data center virtualization.

By offering a consistent end-to-end Fibre Channel (FC) to Fibre Channel over Ethernet (FCoE) solution, the CV-8GFC-S4 facilitates data center benchmarking across all layers of FC and FCoE within a single application. This test module supports full FCoE functionality, encompassing essential features such as standard-compliant FIP, PFC with eight queues, DCBX, NPIV, FDISC, and FCoE benchmarking. With these capabilities, test engineers can design comprehensive FC to FCoE tests, validating the reliable delivery of data from a lossless FC environment to a PFC-controlled FCoE environment. Furthermore, the CV-8GFC-S4 includes a set of proposed IETF standard benchmarking methodologies, enabling users to swiftly and effortlessly initiate tests and characterize the performance of their Fibre Channel infrastructure.

The automated tests provided by the CV-8GFC-S4 are easy to configure and generate comprehensive reports with detailed results. As the demand for faster storage access times and higher transfer rates intensifies due to data center and cloud-based applications, this test module plays a vital role in testing and benchmarking the performance of emerging converged FCoE and native Fibre Channel networks and switches. The CV-8GFC-S4 caters to the efficiency, cost-effectiveness, and potential performance benefits associated with converged data center networks, where 10 Gigabit Fibre Channel over Ethernet is being rapidly adopted at the server level, bridging to native Fibre Channel at the top-of-rack converged access switch or nearer to the storage arrays at the Fibre Channel Director switch.

Among its myriad advantages, the CV-8GFC-S4 brings forth reduced total cost of ownership (TCO), complete end-to-end QoS performance evaluation, scalability, TestCenter architecture, and industry expertise. This test module supports a maximum frame size of 2148 bytes, enables Class 2 and Class 3 PC traffic, and possesses SCSI capabilities. Leveraging an advanced packet scheduler, the CV-8GFC-S4 can generate line rate FC and FCoE traffic, incorporating realistic bursty SCSI traffic patterns. Additionally, this module offers an extensive selection of frame templates for negative testing, per-port user reservation, independent port speed configuration, a 4-port 2G/4G/8G Fibre Channel interface, and FC port state machine data frames and responses.